I need to thank Therover

[harvdog42]

I hit the beaches today and only came up with a few pieces of junk jewelry. On the way home I decided to hit a playground mainly because of Therover's recent comment on the Mid-tones topic. He said something to the effect that he has had success in playgrounds.

No real detecting skills involved in this find. The bracelet was right under a swing. 7.8 grams of 14K.

I generally don't like to post pics of good finds as I think there is something a little egocentric in that. However, since this is half Therover's find I thought it would be OK this time.

Thanks Therover!

Harvdog

 

[therover]

That is a nice looking chain. Did you happen to notice where it ID'd at ?


Reason I ask is, I was hitting a spot on the beach for the last several days that was loaded with deep sinkers. Started to notice, after what seemed like pounds of them, that the big, deep ones would hit hard and ID as either Zinc penny or Square pull tab. All the high tones that were coins ID'd as such, the fishing swivels, very small bb type sinkers and small gold would ID as foil with a soft mid-tone, which was good after a while since I was leaving the blasting type Zinc or square tab ID's alone.

My guess is the chain hit as foil ID and as a softer mid-tone ( gotta love those hits).

What coil were you using ?

Glad you posted a pic.

 

[harvdog42]

I hate to rain on a good party but I hit this find with my PI. As I've stated in previous posts, I prefer the PI at the beach simply because I don't like to mess too much with tuning . At the beach, I prefer just to hunt and dig everything even though the PI I'm using with the 8" coil may give up an inch or so over the CZ with 10.5" coil.

Even with today's high tech instruments, the best discriminator is still what your eyeballs see in the scoop. I hope that changes soon as I don't like digging junk anymore than the next guy.

HH
Harvdog

 

[therover]

Harvdog...there is no rain on the party at all ! Gold is gold my friend, no matter what machine you were using. What PI was it ? The only reason I assumed it was the CZ was because you had mentioned mid-tones.

If you can, see what it ID's as on the CZ. I am curious.

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Chains bracelets etc. are tough to find due to their makeup but since this was a fairly heavy one would feel it would hit in the foil region on a CZ and if using another unit with perhaps a 1-100 meter the high foil area..

 

[harvdog42]

Therover, I almost always hunt parks and inland sites with the CZ. The only reason I was using the PI was because I was on my way back from the beach and it was the only detector I was carrying. In fact it is a little difficult to hunt playground areas with a PI since they don't allow you to get too close to playground equipment without sounding off. The PI I was using was my Sand Shark.

Just as soon as I eat a little breakfast and have some coffee I'll check the ID reading with the CZ and post the results.

Upon closer examination of the bracelet you can see there is another little "empty" hoop that was used to hold a charm. I didn't notice that at the time of the find. I'm going back today to see if I have any luck finding that charm or anything else in that playground.

HH
Harvdog

 

[harvdog42]

I threw the bracelet on the ground so that it would have no particular order to it. The ID held more solidly on beaver tail than nickle but it did bounce quite frequently. That test was done in normal mode.

There is quite a lot of surface area on that charm as it is one of those hollowed out deals which makes for a rough ball shape. My guess is the chain by itself would register in the foil range.

I guess that means I'm going to be digging more beaver tails from now on. Oh my achin' back.

HH
Harvdog

 

[mudpuppy]

n/t

 

[therover]

There is a chart in Andy Sabisch's book as to where most gold rings fall into on a CZ. Of the 161 gold rings sampled, 38% ID as foil, 30% as Square tab. So almost 70% fall into those two ranges, so yup...gotta dig that square tab hit.

The rest were

16% as Ring tab
9% as Nickel ID
5% as Zinc
2% as Coin

This was on a CZ6a meter.

 

[harvdog42]

I never did see that chart before but it is obviously a nice chart. Oh dear...my achin' back. By the way I went back to the tot lot today and looked for the "missing" charm. No luck.

HH
Harvdog